Dredd Reckoning

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Welcome to "Dredd Reckoning"! This blog is no
longer being regularly updated, but it includes discussions of all Judge
Dredd-universe graphic novels as of January 2013. (To be more specific: every
squarebound book reprinting Judge Dredd
comics, or other comics set in that world, that's not made redundant by a later
book.)

If you're wondering where to begin with the Dredd comics, there's a special post
about that: Where
to Start Reading Judge Dredd. (Short version: nearly every volume is self-contained,
although there's a definite historical progression. My personal favorites among
the in-print volumes are America, Case Files 5 and 14, the two Day of Chaos books, Brothers of the Blood, and Trifecta. Of the spinoffs, I especially like Chopper: Surf's Up, Mega-City
Undercover Vol. 02: Living the Low Life,The Taxidermist, and Devlin
Waugh: Swimming in Blood.)

For those of you who don't want to monkey with the
sidebar--or for those of you who want the complete, anal-retentive
chronological reading order for all things Dredd-related--here are all the
relevant books with otherwise unreprinted content, in order of "earliest otherwise unreprinted story,"
as closely as I can approximate it, with links to the blog entries:

(America stories from Judge Dredd Megazine #1.01-1.07 and 3.20-3.25, and Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 736 and 819 and Judge Dredd Megazine #250-252 and 300; note that most but not all of this material is discussed as America)

The Complete Cam Kennedy, Volume 2

(Judge Dredd
stories from 2000 AD Progs 643-645,
1133-1134,
1183-1185, 1200-1202, 1234-1236, 1241, 1282-1284, 1336-1337, 1400-1404, 1477-1479, Prog 2000 and Prog 2002, and from Judge Dredd
Megazine #3.46, 3.50, 4.01-4.03, 228-229 and 238-239, as well as Beyond Our Kenny from Judge Dredd Megazine #1.01-1.03; note that most but not all of this material is discussed as The Art of
Kenny Who?: The Cam Kennedy Collection)

(Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on
Gotham, Vendetta in Gotham, The Ultimate Riddle and Die Laughing,
as well as Lobo/Judge Dredd: Psycho Bikers Vs. the Mutants from Hell; see also the earlier discussion of The
Batman/Judge Dredd Files)

(Shimura stories from Judge Dredd Megazine #2.50-2.55, 2.72-2.77, 3.14-3.17, 3.34-3.35 and 238-243 and Judge Dredd Mega Special 1996, and Judge Dredd story from Judge Dredd Megazine #3.19; see also the Shimura entry, which overlaps heavily with this)

The Complete Case Files 22
(Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 916-939 and Judge Dredd Megazine #2.69-2.80; see also the entry for Crusade, which is material from this and Case Files 20)

The Complete Case Files 23

(Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 940-959 and Judge Dredd Megazine #2.81-2.83 and 3.01-3.07; see also the entry for Goodnight
Kiss, which is material from this and Case Files 17 and 19)

The Complete Case Files 24
(Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 959-983 and Judge Dredd Megazine #3.04-3.16; see also the entries for Blind Justice, which includes material from Progs 959-963, and The Pit, which is material from Progs 970-999)

The Complete Case Files 25
(Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 984-1028 and Judge Dredd Megazine #3.16-3.18; see also the entry for Judge Death: Death Lives!, which is material from Progs 1000-1006 and elsewhere)

The Complete Case Files 26
(Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD Progs 1029-1052 and Judge Dredd Megazine #3.19, 3.22 and 3.26-3.33; see also the entry for The Hunting Party, which is material from this and Case Files 25)

(Judge Dredd
stories from 2000 AD Progs 342,
416-418, 424-429, 435, 437, 440-441, 451-455, 458, 461-463, 466-467, 477-479,
507-510, 514, 718, 1387 and 2000 AD Prog 2001, as well as 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1985 and 2000 AD Yearbook 1992--note that the story from Prog 1387 is the only otherwise unduplicated-on-this-list episode here, and can also be found in The Art of Kenny Who?)

Judge Dredd Vol. 6(collects IDW's Judge Dredd #21-24)Judge Dredd Vol. 7: Mega-City Manhunt(collects IDW's Judge Dredd #25-30)Judge Dredd: Anderson, Psi-Division(collects IDW's Judge Dredd: Anderson, Psi-Division #1-4)One other note: if you buy any books
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Amazon Prime and would like to do something that puts money in my pocket but
won't cost you anything, I'd love it if you could borrow my Kindle Single
"Comic-Con Strikes Again!" from the Kindle lending library. Thanks. I
hope this site is helpful to you.

More listmaking, with BARNEY's invaluable assistance. These are the series set in Dredd's universe in the era of the Mega-Cities that have not yet been collected, even partly, in book form. (Some have been collected in Extreme Editions or the Megazine; also, I've probably missed a few one-offs.)

About Me

I write about pop music and comic books for a lot of places. My book "Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean" was published by Da Capo in 2007; my book "Live at the Apollo" was published by Continuum in 2004.